Strings of bright cheap beads hang from wrought-iron balconies and adorn sweaty necks.

Also if you have a cheap bead in a tongue piercing and accidentally chew on it, it can break into tiny shards and cause lacerations.

She wore several strings of cheap colored beads around her neck, and she had a cornflower painted on her right cheek.

He picked up a rosary of cheap light beads that lay coiled in an alabaster ashtray on a side table near the door.

The etching on these cheap beads has been done very quickly, and the decorations do not penetrate into the inner core of the bead.

Mardi Gras celebrations include parades and floats; participants toss strings of cheap colorful beads and doubloons to the crowds.

You are certain there were no pieces of jewelry, aside from cheap beads?

In the 1990s, many people lost interest in small, cheap beads, often leaving them where they landed on the ground.

It was just cheap beads, probably plastic.

To Mr. Pomilio's left, Gae Savannah shows faux-Chinese shrines, attractive little pagodas made of cheap beads, colored feathers and fabric.